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Hans Christian Ørsted birthday (14 August 1777 – 9 March 1851) has been featured on Google Doodle for Today . Hans Christian Ørsted was a Danish physicist and chemist who is best known for discovering that electric currents can create magnetic fields, which is an important part of electromagnetism.

He shaped post-Kantian philosophy and advances in science throughout the late 19th century. He was also the first modern thinker to explicitly describe and name the thought experiment. [Wikipedia]